Recently, I've been having a real moral dispute with myself regarding how I feel about rating films. After seeing "I'm Still Here" it feels so reductive to rate it anything. It's an astonishing piece of art that moved and broke me. I understand rating a movie on enjoyment levels rather than technicalities but I can't do it when a film is this personal and this affecting.
I need more films that tell stories like this.
From the magical, swooping opening shot of the corn fields I was immediately balling my eyes out.
I can't express what David Lynch and his work has meant to me. I am genuinely devastated we have lost one of the all time great artists. For the last couple of years, all I have been dreaming of is another sliver of Lynchian media in any shape or form. I was elated when he brought out an album in his last couple…
January 2021: Martin Scorsese
Goddamn, that plane crash was fkn insaneeeee...
What a life and what a film. The man knows how to show anxieties. Performances are near perfect from everyone and the addition of the Wainwright family as musicians made me happy so yeah there whatevs...
July 2022: The Coen Bros
I absolutely fucking lose it everytime at the hand-off scene. Every-single-time.
Yeah, I just love everything about this. The writing of the dialogue in particular is so good and they perform it perfectly. I love the whole Raymond Chandler-esque convoluted storyline way to parody a noir. It's just so clever.
Love it so much x
Donny🧡
